To improve understanding of the retail food environment, consumers’ and retailers’ perspectives on factors influencing their food retail-related decisions, as well as the existing national-level policies and actions influencing food retail in SEA.
OBJECTIVES
To analyze the characteristics of the national food retail landscape in Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand.
To explore the consumer experience of their retail food environment, and to assess the retail food environment in selected urban poor areas.
To analyze retailer decision-making relevant to selling healthier food in urban poor areas
To analyze the policy landscape relevant to the national retail food environment.